Is anyone here so hardcore that they don’t even bother with mainstream social media? If its not on Lemmy or Mastodon it must not be important? Anyone that hardcore?
I haven’t browsed Reddit since the creation of my Lemmy account (~2years ago); though I’ve wound up viewing a Reddit thread or two via a google search on rare occasion. Beyond those two, the only other ‘social media’ I’ve used in at least a decade is Youtube.
For some reason I don’t count youtube as social media - If I went to reddit and read comments without voting that would count, but youtube is just a video delivery platform (and I don’t read the comments). Not sure if that’s a real distinction I can make
That’s fair. I think it kind of depends on how much you interact with creators and their communities. (comment sections, comunity posts, live content, etc)
Reddit isn’t social media, YouTube isn’t social media. People started branding anything with a comment thread as social media and it’s nonsensical. Criteria for social media: 1. Must allow following any user 2. Users must not be anonymous 3. Must be able to interact with, chat, send messages to, etc. any user. 4. All of the above must be the main point of the site.
Reddit is a forum of forums. The point is aggregated news feed for different forums. User to user social interaction is not the main point, and the user to user interaction that occurs is forum interaction, which existed decades before social media.
YouTube is a video sharing site. It has comment sections just like any news site.
If YouTube is social media then literally any news site is social media. If Reddit is social media then every forum on the planet is social media. Neither of those things make sense, therefore they’re not social media.
Sorry I just absolutely hate that everyone refers to anything with a comment section as social media now. It completely devalues the word and makes it meaningless.
Who set those rules? Is there standards body that promulgates them? I remember that social media emerged as a term to describe media on which the users provided the content, rather than traditional gatekeepers like newspapers and TV networks. Wikipedia agrees, using special jargon, distinguishing between monologic and dialogic media models.
Reddit is quintessential social media.
Is there standards body that promulgates them?
Hmm. For me social media is where end users create the media. So Reddit, Lemmy, YouTube all fit this.
The reason I would call reddit social media is that I don’t agree with any of those rules
The closest I would agree with is 2, and not based on lack of anonymity but instead on persistence of identity, and that being core to the experience
I was part of subreddits where users knew each other as distinct personalities, and could converse across different threads across time, and occasionally IRL from various meetups
When a website doesn’t have a lively and persistent ‘local’ community (maybe geographic, maybe subject etc) it can’t really be social
My exact response. Thank you
Same boat. There is obviously less content, but the user engagement seems more meaningful than getting lost in a sea of comments on some /r/AskReddit mega-thread. Not to mention, not having to deal with nearly as many Trump supporters and anti-LGBTQ people.
Remember /r/GenderCritical? A supposed rad-fem space that’s only purpose was to denigrate any existence of trans people? Or the multiple copies that propped up after it was banned?
I didn’t leave Reddit, Reddit disabled the app I used to access it for over 10 years when they disabled API access. Figured they didn’t want or need my contributions anymore.
Yeah. I stopped commenting, when my main account had ridiculous amounts of karma. I still browse, but only logged out and only on old.reddit.com in a web browser.
I still have Stealth, though browsers are probably better since you get more control and therefore privacy
Same, used a workaround for a while but then got tired of it and my favorite client got a lemmy version. Smaller places are more fun.
This. There is nothing like scrolling lemmy and finding that you went through the new content in 5 mins and now it’s time to go live my life
redreader still works for free.
I wouldn’t consider myself hardcore for it, but yeah I only use Lemmy. Nothing else lol
Used to use reddit until they pulled their bullshit with 3rd party apps.
Edit: another answer made me reconsider what it means to “use” reddit, so yeah if I’m searching for information on Google or something and there’s an answer on Reddit I’ll read it, but I don’t log in or communicate on there at all.
How has Lemmy been for you? How do you resist the call of Reddit on a Dark and stormy night?
Lemmy obviously is “smaller” so there isn’t as much breadth of content, but I like it. I just don’t like that the smaller community makes me feel like I’m more likely to be “recognized” over time, I prefer to be “just another voice.”
How I resist reddit is easy: fuck spez.
If you look a bit closer you’ll see so much AI slop on reddit these days that it’s hard to use. It boggles my noggle that the most obvious AI generated engagement bait gets posted on places like AITA including the classic Chad Jippity dashes and people engage with it.
Chatgpt, pretend you’re an abused woman. Your husband has cut you open and is currently wearing your intestines as a necklace but you’re not sure if you’re overreacting so you ask online. Put all the reddit karma in a bag once you’re done.
Fuck that shit.
I honestly don’t consider the sea of noise over there “social” media. So I never even think to go over to it. Like others, if an answer to a question happens to be on Reddit, I’ll read that while signed out.
I browse bluesky, news.ycombinator.com, or try and read a book 😅
I’m 100% fediverse
No more stockholder / CEO / billionaire / fascist shit for me
For daily browsing, pure Lemmy.
Researching a problem or future purchase, I’m still putting site:reddit.com in the search bar. I love you Lemmy, but you’re just not there yet.
This sums it up perfectly.
I have not used reddit since the API fuckery.
Lemmy is the only social media platform where I have an account. No Facebook, no Reddit, no LinkedIn, etc. From time to time I do read a post on Reddit, when it comes up in search results. When you have an obscure gaming or Linux issue, Reddit can (unfortunately) still be a treasure trove.
Lemmy + Hackernews + Arstechnica
What more is there to know?
What are those other two
Hackernews is a link-based message board, Ars is a article-based website
Both used to be just tech, but have started being a bit more general or tech-adjacent
Ars has specialist professional journalists, Hackernews links heavily favour tech industry professionals and deep dives
Arstechnica is a Condé Nast fluff piece machine.
Hackernews not so bad, but still owned by YC. They are investors in Reddit and seeded a lot of other tech startups.
Slashdot?
Lemmy is my main social media. I don’t use anything else. Occasionally, I still get reddit in my search results though.
Oh, I also use Discord.
Do you use discord for weiners or gaming? Actually, it doesn’t matter. Have fun.
I wouldn’t consider exclusively using Lemmy for social media “hardcore”. Let’s be real, people don’t use social media because the content is important. I use Lemmy when I need a break and such, see some memes, read an interesting article someone posted. And Reddit sometimes turns up when I search for opinions on products, solutions for maintaining my home, stuff like that. Usually just useful, old posts. I keep in contact with people I actually know through private chats, mostly Signal. What else do you need?
Reddit backstabbing the 3rd party app developers was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. Found my way here during that shitstorm. Full deletion of my Reddit accound, haven’t looked back. The quality of Lemmy has left me no desire to relapse.
Lemmy is my only social media
the only social media I have is Lemmy and mastodon. I prefer Lemmy to mastodon. (I also have kbin)
I quit Facebook, Reddit, Twitter etc. because of content manipulation. They suppress posts against their agenda and promote those for their agenda. I always knew this, but when I realized I was being influenced, I deleted my accounts and quit.
Only things I’ll use now are open source, decentralized, and non profit owned. (I’ll gladly donate)
If anything I’m surprised by the constant Reddit comparisons, because this has never felt like Reddit to me.
It feels like a 90s forum. Small, focused on a handful of topics, you always argue with the same five guys about the same five things… It’s not a Reddit replacement at all. Which is why I’m here, I don’t contribute to Reddit and never have.
Lemmy and YouTube. That’s it. Everything else gives me too much anxiety. At work, if I have to reference something from social media, I ask other people to look it up for me and send me the link.
